The administration to overturn the 2020 election. a series of texts between meadows and texas congressman chip roy, and utah senator mike lee sent between election day and january 6th show how the two trump supporters were looking to the guide the white house for guidance despite having lost and lee sent a text, offering unequivocal support to you to exhaust every legal and constitutional remedy at your disposal to restore americans faith in our elections. congressman roy texted meadows saying we need ammo, we need fraud examples, we need it this weekend. roy responded to the report on friday, tweeting this. i say this once. no apologies for my private texts or public positions to those on the left or right.
And your friends. help grandma cross the street. yeah. he s gonna blow it. you think i can t do this? ow! we need a animal. this was an actual quote, believe it or not, and might not like that is something going from ukrainian general speaking to his american counterpart. but actually, the saw republican congressman chip roy reportedly texted than mark meadows, just four days after the 2020 election. the very same day that joe biden was announced as the president elect. congressman roy said, we need i m, will we need fraud examples, we needed this weekend. congressman roy and republican senator mike lee sent dozens of messages, like this, the meadow s between election day 2020, and the infamous capitol riot day, january the 6th. the messages were authenticated by the new york times as well
Going from ukrainian general speaking to his american counterpart. but actually, the saw republican congressman chip roy reportedly texted than mark meadows, just four days after the 2020 election. the very same day that joe biden was announced as the president elect. congressman roy said, we need i m, will we need fraud examples, we needed this weekend. congressman roy and republican senator mike lee sent dozens of messages, like this, the meadow s between election day 2020, and the infamous capitol riot day, january the 6th. the messages were authenticated by the new york times as well as other outlets. and are now reportedly in the position of the january six committee. remarkably, both roy, and ali, stand behind those messages. joining me now is california congresswoman jackie speier. she is the member of the house intelligence committee. thank you so much for coming back on the program. we ve been talking over the
It can power hundreds of devices with three times the bandwidth. so your growing wifi needs will be met. supersonic wifi only from us. xfinity. the january 6 investigation. more members of congress are now implicated. after cnn revealed text messages from senator mike lee and congressman chip roy to then white house chief of staff mark meadows urging donald trump not to concede the election. for example, on november 7th, rory wrote, we need ammo. we need fraud examples. we need it this weekend. there is also reporting from the new york times citing people familiar with the investigation that the january 6 committee believes it has enough evidence that trump broke the law, but is split on whether to actually send a criminal referral to d.o.j.
Reading of those text messages than many other commentators oh, yeah. i think that they were asking in that, we need ammo. we need fraud examples. they were asking for facts. they heard all of the accusations of fraud in the election, but they weren t seeing it. they saw 60 cases being lost in court. they were asking for actual facts. and i think that i m confirmed in that by the fact that at the end they said, this is a s show and did not vote to overturn the will of the people because there was no evidence of any fraud. so i don t quite read it in the same way as everybody else. yes, in the beginning they were definitely for fighting for the president in any way possible. they even wanted sidney powell to be taken in consideration and used, and then east man, when